Allrecipes wants to show me desktop notifications .... for some reason? In case a recipe is recalled? There's a revolutionary new way to combine eggs flour sugar and cream I'm not already familiar with?

Upgraded my laptop to #Fedora 29 last night. Took the better part of an hour unattended, but went smoothly.

Still, starting to feel itchy given the #IBM / #RedHat#Linux acquisition. Spent a few hours over the past two days re-reading #NixOS docs.

NixOS seems like the only thing different enough from the status quo to be worth the effort of switching, but I'm not sure if I'd see real benefits or if I'm just looking for some kind of procrastination that feels productive...

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how my social media use has changed in ten years. Time was I’d talk about feeling blue, what I was working on, stuff that was bugging me, water-cooler stuff. Now it’s more guarded/performative: pithy one-liners, media reviews, and social commentary.

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